Lens Artists Photo Challenge #368 – Looking Back to Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #106: Autumn

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John is Looking Back to challenge #106 – Autumn. We don’t get fall colors in coastal Georgia so if I want to see the autumn leaves we have to take a trip north of here.

Autumn is also college football season. Some of you know that Henry and I are huge Georgia Bulldogs college football fans. We spent many falls attending the Bulldogs home football games in Athens, Georgia. We have also made several fall trips to see Georgia play in away games. It was fun taking trips to combine football with searching for autumn colors.

On our way to Lexington, Kentucky for a football game we searched for fall colors along the way. We stopped in Sevierville, Tennessee where the colorful autumn leaves wowed us on a drive in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In the following gallery the first three photos are from that drive in Cades Cove. The final image shows colorful leaves in Lexington.

Fall Colors Cades Cove
Fall Colors Cades Cove
Fall Colors Cades Cove
Lexington Kentucky Autumn Colors

One year we camped on West Point Lake in Georgia on our way to Auburn, Alabama for a football game. We were treated to some beautiful fall colors around the lake.

Autumn colors West Point Lake, Georgia
Autumn colors West Point Lake, Georgia

Another year we traveled to Columbia, Missouri and Little Rock, Arkansas to attend football games. The autumn colors were glorious in Tennessee and around Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri.

Fall colors in Tennessee
Lake of the Ozarks

For Thanksgiving one year we spent the weekend in Athens, Georgia to attend a home game against instate rival Georgia Tech. The trees on the University of Georgia campus and in downtown Athens were showing their peak colors.

Last week our guest host Joanne’s challenge was “Everyone should see this”. I enjoyed seeing all of photos of many incredible places from around the world.

I hope you will join in for this week’s challenge. Be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to John’s post Lens-Artists #368 – Looking Back at #106 Autumn.

Be sure to check back on Saturday, October 11 at noon eastern time for Ann-Christine’s challenge.

For information on how to join the Len-Artists challenge please click here.

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39 thoughts on “Lens Artists Photo Challenge #368 – Looking Back to Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #106: Autumn”

  2. Wow! So pretty! Vibrant colors and love the one with the geese! We lived in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, when Richard went to graduate school. And I know about the Georgia Bulldogs – I was born in Athens and lived there until we moved to PA when I was six years old. We still visited friends in northern Georgia every summer when I was a kid.

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    1. Thanks Pam! It was fun traveling in the fall to see the games and the autumn leaves. The prettiest colors were always in November. I remember you telling me about your connection to Athens. We haven’t been back to Athens in a while. We watch the games on tv at home now.

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  8. Beth, you guys experience Fall much like us – colorless. But, it’s nice to have leaf-peeping only a car ride away. We have the Bourbon Trail trip at the end of the month, maybe there will still be a little color up in Kentucky.

    I enjoyed your photos from the past, and how you took them. Malcolm’s cousin chases UM all over the country, so I understand the obsession with following your team. Even if you no longer do that, you still have all those wonderful memories. Besides, nothing wrong with a recliner in front of the TV with a bowl of Doritos!

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    1. Thanks Suzanne! Those trips were so much fun! I’m so glad we did them when we did. Sometimes I miss the RV trips but I don’t really miss going to the games in person. I’m happy in my recliner yelling at the TV!
      We went to Kentucky in November so maybe you will see some pretty colors there. That photo was taken from the Wild Turkey Distillery. Enjoy your Bourbon Trail trip!

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  9. I know what fun it can be travelling to support your favourite team, and even more so if you can combine it with some other experiences and/or photo opportunities 🙂 You’ve compiled a lovely gallery of autumn colours from your various trips.

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  19. Beautiful colours with you, Beth! And good ideas to get them too. I do have a couple of favourites this time – the horses in the meadow, with those muted, lovely colours. I also really liked the bridge picture.

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